...we could simply say "OK thanks Russia. You want to play 'media domination game"?"
The US is already the most staggeringly dominant culture ever seen on earth, without really deliberately trying (not unlikely that's partly why).
If we were a country with any sense of itself, any sense of unity of purpose, and not a fractious bunch of self-hating bitches, with Hollywood's expertise we could without batting an eye SWAMP Russian media, internet, and airwaves with a chaos of propaganda, infowar, fake news, with production values so sophisticated there would be NO WAY any Russian national could tell if that video was real or not, or that email was real or not, or that video of Vladimir Putin having a quiet, gay moment with a young Russian male model followed by an overwhelming wave of irrefutable evidence of that young male model being found murdered brutally and only the faintest traces of official security service involvement.
They spent what, a few $hundred thousand influencing social media? We could drop a few $hundred MILLION and drive their society into outright civil war.
There is no media culture as dominant or efficacious as the American culture in 2018. None. But we are our own worst enemy, and Russia can do this sort of thing knowing that Americans will cheerfully attack EACH OTHER over it long before they have the cojones to set aside their partisan bitching in favor of their own country's well being.
The CIA director talked about them 'disrupting' the election.
I know to those on the Left, this is synonymous with "got Trump elected." I don't know that's necessarily what he meant.
The fact is, whatever they can dump onto American social media to enhance outrage, to enhance division, to gin up anger - that all counts as 'disrupting'.
It's been regularly and reliably uninstalling every time I've reinstalled the "games" pack from Win7. It's good for a few days, then 'update' and it's gone.
So I guess Windows does have some pretty robust and reliable auto-functionality, you just have to be on the developer side of the fence to deploy it.
No, I'm not getting their shitty MS Store Win 10 versions.
Are you seriously asserting that libertarianism isn't on the "conservative" side of the fence?
Conservatism in the US is inherently anti-authoritarian. The most fundamental plank of the Republican party is a smaller federal government, optimally one that ONLY serves its constitutional functions. (Notwithstanding the betrayal of these principles by Republicans in Washington since 2000 - such betrayal being one of the least-discussed but substantial bases for groundswell support for Trump.)
I'm curious on what basis you'd believe it wasn't?
Do they have an "Ethics in Physics" class required for people who might design nuclear weapons?
Or an "Ethics in Chemistry" for those who might design mundane explosives or chemical weapons?
Or an "Ethics in Biomedical Engineering" for those who may eventually build killer cyborgs?
Yes, I'm saying this is silly. Ethics is ethics, and if you're going to REQUIRE it, require it of everyone - I think our entire culture could use a good shot of ethics.
I mean sure, Rover might get his walk an hour later, or Bessie get milked an hour earlier, but it's not like these expectations are ENTIRELY the result of habituation to human schedules in the first place.
It's not like Yogi Bear is like "oh shit, I was supposed to steal that picnic basket at 8 and I missed it because I forgot to reset my goddamned alarm clock..."
Methinks he wasn't just "telling them about the service".
IMO from an American law point of view, it wouldn't seem that he did anything precisely illegal, merely enabled other people to do things which might include illegality. It'd be like hosting a site on lockpicking.
...but let's talk about how Capitalism will fuck this.
It may be wonderfully charming that your Black Cab driver knows the whole city by heart, but (almost) NOBODY IS WILLING TO PAY FOR IT.
If someone asked: "will you pay an extra $1 for a cabbie that knows the text of the Magna Carta?", it may have been a grueling example of memorization and a clever trick but almost nobody cares. And capitalism is about paying as little as possible for what you need, and nothing else that costs money.
See, most people just want (from their cab) to get from point A to point B in as reasonably short a timeframe as possible. GPS and system-aware autocars can do this well enough.
Sorry, I see no need to protect buggy-whip makers nor blacksmiths in 2018. Like those professions, I'm sure The Knowledge will remain of some boutique value to a few tourists, and thus a few examples will persist tucked in between carriage horses at Hyde Park, but as an INDUSTRY? Why?
It sounds like it's the data-gathering mechanism that is insufficient to the task, not that "AI tailors" are to blame.
It's pretty flipping hard for anyone to take a picture (much less something sloppily done) and make a wearable, nicely-fitted garment from it. There's some pretty complex 3d geometry going on.
If you think that the bulk of a driver's time is spent DRIVING you don't really even begin to understand what you're talking about.
Typically there are 2 free hours to load, 2 free hours to unload at for every delivery (even if LTL), which means that run needs to be 200-250 miles to even be 50% of their time driving. And this is discounting the hours they may spend down (basically doing nothing) between last drop and next pick.
The trucking business has been sub replacement-rate on drivers for at least a dozen years - since substantially before the 2007 crash. If truck drivers were making a "decent middle class wage" this wouldn't be the case. Route pricing has been flat for a decade and the industry itself is in a somewhat-ridiculous 28th quarter of contraction with 000's (yes, thousands) of trucking companies shuttering every quarter. (Note, most of these of course are single-person or 2-person "companies" of course. But there's a decent number of actual corps in that carnage too.)
Older, experienced drivers have ALREADY largely left the business. Your typical truck driver today is an immigrant with something less than 30 hours of road time under his belt.
I can certainly see the long-haul trucking business being automated, with trucks discharging into 'pools' outside metro areas, for a local 'pilot' to hop in and do the in-town delivery. That seems simple and makes perfect sense. You are right that 'courier' drivers do often make minimum wage or less, particularly when one considers the terrible sharecropping-equivalent lease-to-own programs they use to hook the ignorant. But local semi-truck drivers are a different deal: that's a pretty highly sought-after gig because you get a salary (not paid per mile like long-haulers, who have seen a direct cut to their income by about 30-40% thanks to Obama-era new safety requirements and ELD) and you get to have a home and family you see. Until now, the demand for them has largely been flat (no trucking company lives on local deliveries; it's all longhaul).
What I think is interesting is IF this model goes into effect, this will incentivize the largest corporations to build their plants very remotely, near major arteries but far outside of urban development...in that sense, they could operate their own 'pools' and be an actual node on the system, meaning no need for the local delivery - but where would they get employees? And they'd still ultimately need to deliver their product into metropolises to the consumers.
Or maybe let people make up their own minds instead of taking a nanny state approach?
My father played football, including division 1 collegiate, until he was knocked cold while tackling Jim McNamara. He woke up the next day in his dorm room, had trouble reading ever since (which we know now for sure was a result). At age 70, he suffered a massive paralyzing stroke which may very well have been a result of umpteen concussions.
I played football in high school and was being recruited for college play but was unable to continue due to significant injuries to my knees and back, as well as a dislocated shoulder, broken ankle, and 7 bones in my hands on one instance.
My oldest son played football in high school and college, having an injury free career until 2 concussions left him with some memory issues.
My sister asked us all the other day at dinner if we would play again, knowing what we would have to suffer. My answer was easy, as my injuries have only left me now a little pain & slow to get up it 50. Even I was surprised when both my father and son absolutely, immediately, said yes as well.
So maybe you don't choose for us, and let people make their now better informed choices by themselves ?
This is a great advance, but if we're talking solely about light-occlusion detection techniques*, aren't these results preconstrained by simple geometry to an astonishingly low subset of potential stellar systems? This requires: - the stellar main body must be physically occluded by the planet's orbital path (0.01% of systems at best, unless a) there's some sort of 'general ecliptic' for our galaxy AND b) we happen to be right on it)? *and* - the planet must actually be in that place in it's orbit; considering that the first confirmed detection was only 25 years ago, and CONFIRMATION really takes 3 'hits', we wouldn't have yet detected any Jupiter-orbital body in a Sol-similar system (period 11+ years) - that we haven't moved enough in the meanwhile gathering those 3 'hits' that we've lost the favorable geometry in the first place.
My point is that I haven't heard much discussion about these odds? If the system is likely to only detect 0.01% of planets, and has already detected hundreds, it's a near-certainty that there are hundreds of thousands that we HAVEN'T detected, no?
*Yes, we also detect planets by stellar primary motion now, but it would seem that those detections are subject to a number of other possible explanations, and thus have larger error bars.
"... if you crave music, you can easily raid your parents or grandparents record collections...." What?
Clearly, we missed something that needs to be immediately legislated away. OBVIOUSLY handling music to your children is EXPLOITING desperate musicians. Thanks for the reminder.
"The free will theorem of John H. Conway and Simon B. Kochen states that if we have a free will in the sense that our choices are not a function of the past, then, subject to certain assumptions, so must some elementary particles." Begged question: nobody is equating consciousness with free will.
Personally, I believe that everything we do and everything that happens IS a direct result of the immediate previous moment at least down to the point of quantum uncertainty. If we had total knowledge of the position, spin, etc of every particle and charge in the universe, as well as a perfect understanding of how they interact, we could theoretically predict the future with near-perfect certainty. IMO all of history and the future are a giant billiard trick shot.
So no, I don't see any need to reconcile Conway's theorem, because I don't believe in free will.
Squeeze the guys playing by the rules harder, forcing them to push price hikes to their customers. It's not like the guys who run Pandora are bajillionaires from it. Yet there seem to be lots and lots of millionaire musicians?
I'm sure this won't drive anyone to piracy at ALL.
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...we could simply say "OK thanks Russia. You want to play 'media domination game"?"
The US is already the most staggeringly dominant culture ever seen on earth, without really deliberately trying (not unlikely that's partly why).
If we were a country with any sense of itself, any sense of unity of purpose, and not a fractious bunch of self-hating bitches, with Hollywood's expertise we could without batting an eye SWAMP Russian media, internet, and airwaves with a chaos of propaganda, infowar, fake news, with production values so sophisticated there would be NO WAY any Russian national could tell if that video was real or not, or that email was real or not, or that video of Vladimir Putin having a quiet, gay moment with a young Russian male model followed by an overwhelming wave of irrefutable evidence of that young male model being found murdered brutally and only the faintest traces of official security service involvement.
They spent what, a few $hundred thousand influencing social media? We could drop a few $hundred MILLION and drive their society into outright civil war.
There is no media culture as dominant or efficacious as the American culture in 2018. None.
But we are our own worst enemy, and Russia can do this sort of thing knowing that Americans will cheerfully attack EACH OTHER over it long before they have the cojones to set aside their partisan bitching in favor of their own country's well being.
The CIA director talked about them 'disrupting' the election.
I know to those on the Left, this is synonymous with "got Trump elected."
I don't know that's necessarily what he meant.
The fact is, whatever they can dump onto American social media to enhance outrage, to enhance division, to gin up anger - that all counts as 'disrupting'.
It's been regularly and reliably uninstalling every time I've reinstalled the "games" pack from Win7. It's good for a few days, then 'update' and it's gone.
So I guess Windows does have some pretty robust and reliable auto-functionality, you just have to be on the developer side of the fence to deploy it.
No, I'm not getting their shitty MS Store Win 10 versions.
Now I can stop paying all those licensing fees that I've been sending all these years!
Are you seriously asserting that libertarianism isn't on the "conservative" side of the fence?
Conservatism in the US is inherently anti-authoritarian. The most fundamental plank of the Republican party is a smaller federal government, optimally one that ONLY serves its constitutional functions. (Notwithstanding the betrayal of these principles by Republicans in Washington since 2000 - such betrayal being one of the least-discussed but substantial bases for groundswell support for Trump.)
I'm curious on what basis you'd believe it wasn't?
Do they have an "Ethics in Physics" class required for people who might design nuclear weapons?
Or an "Ethics in Chemistry" for those who might design mundane explosives or chemical weapons?
Or an "Ethics in Biomedical Engineering" for those who may eventually build killer cyborgs?
Yes, I'm saying this is silly.
Ethics is ethics, and if you're going to REQUIRE it, require it of everyone - I think our entire culture could use a good shot of ethics.
What animals are inconvenienced by DST?
I mean sure, Rover might get his walk an hour later, or Bessie get milked an hour earlier, but it's not like these expectations are ENTIRELY the result of habituation to human schedules in the first place.
It's not like Yogi Bear is like "oh shit, I was supposed to steal that picnic basket at 8 and I missed it because I forgot to reset my goddamned alarm clock..."
"Warning: this stream may include language you heard on the bus as a kindergartner."
Forfeited $83000 in revenue?
Methinks he wasn't just "telling them about the service".
IMO from an American law point of view, it wouldn't seem that he did anything precisely illegal, merely enabled other people to do things which might include illegality. It'd be like hosting a site on lockpicking.
Any idea where he got his Owl Attractant spray?
Asking for a friend.
...but let's talk about how Capitalism will fuck this.
It may be wonderfully charming that your Black Cab driver knows the whole city by heart, but (almost) NOBODY IS WILLING TO PAY FOR IT.
If someone asked: "will you pay an extra $1 for a cabbie that knows the text of the Magna Carta?", it may have been a grueling example of memorization and a clever trick but almost nobody cares. And capitalism is about paying as little as possible for what you need, and nothing else that costs money.
See, most people just want (from their cab) to get from point A to point B in as reasonably short a timeframe as possible. GPS and system-aware autocars can do this well enough.
Sorry, I see no need to protect buggy-whip makers nor blacksmiths in 2018. Like those professions, I'm sure The Knowledge will remain of some boutique value to a few tourists, and thus a few examples will persist tucked in between carriage horses at Hyde Park, but as an INDUSTRY? Why?
It's listed as an excel in the report. "seed list" http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/re...
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"Hard right wing junk news":
Daily Caller?
Drudge?
gatewaypundit?
National Review?
Yet no democraticunderground.com? slate.com? wonkette.com?
Seems like that list is pretty fuckin' hard-skewed by selection bias.
It sounds like it's the data-gathering mechanism that is insufficient to the task, not that "AI tailors" are to blame.
It's pretty flipping hard for anyone to take a picture (much less something sloppily done) and make a wearable, nicely-fitted garment from it. There's some pretty complex 3d geometry going on.
Or, for this to be true, one would have to understand that the majority of a driver's time is not necessarily spent driving on the road.
2 hours load, 2 hour unload for every shipment, plus all the down time waiting for the next pickup to be available. Plus required resting hours.
No, I mean ACTUAL new rules.
https://www.foleyservices.com/...
Understand what you're talking about before you comment.
....they need to fire the dipshit that allowed an 'accidental' send of that (from what I heard, as the guy was trying to punch out).
My car has a "call for help" button, even THAT trivial thing is covered with a safety switch - push once to open and expose the ACTUAL button,
If you think that the bulk of a driver's time is spent DRIVING you don't really even begin to understand what you're talking about.
Typically there are 2 free hours to load, 2 free hours to unload at for every delivery (even if LTL), which means that run needs to be 200-250 miles to even be 50% of their time driving. And this is discounting the hours they may spend down (basically doing nothing) between last drop and next pick.
I don't think so.
The trucking business has been sub replacement-rate on drivers for at least a dozen years - since substantially before the 2007 crash. If truck drivers were making a "decent middle class wage" this wouldn't be the case. Route pricing has been flat for a decade and the industry itself is in a somewhat-ridiculous 28th quarter of contraction with 000's (yes, thousands) of trucking companies shuttering every quarter. (Note, most of these of course are single-person or 2-person "companies" of course. But there's a decent number of actual corps in that carnage too.)
Older, experienced drivers have ALREADY largely left the business. Your typical truck driver today is an immigrant with something less than 30 hours of road time under his belt.
I can certainly see the long-haul trucking business being automated, with trucks discharging into 'pools' outside metro areas, for a local 'pilot' to hop in and do the in-town delivery. That seems simple and makes perfect sense. You are right that 'courier' drivers do often make minimum wage or less, particularly when one considers the terrible sharecropping-equivalent lease-to-own programs they use to hook the ignorant. But local semi-truck drivers are a different deal: that's a pretty highly sought-after gig because you get a salary (not paid per mile like long-haulers, who have seen a direct cut to their income by about 30-40% thanks to Obama-era new safety requirements and ELD) and you get to have a home and family you see. Until now, the demand for them has largely been flat (no trucking company lives on local deliveries; it's all longhaul).
What I think is interesting is IF this model goes into effect, this will incentivize the largest corporations to build their plants very remotely, near major arteries but far outside of urban development...in that sense, they could operate their own 'pools' and be an actual node on the system, meaning no need for the local delivery - but where would they get employees? And they'd still ultimately need to deliver their product into metropolises to the consumers.
Economy-shaking, for sure.
Please ignore the entire substance of the memo and the facts before you, in favor of shit you're making up that "might exist". Right?
This is not an 'excerpt' of the FISA application, btw. So it's pointless to say pages are missing...they aren't.
Or maybe let people make up their own minds instead of taking a nanny state approach?
My father played football, including division 1 collegiate, until he was knocked cold while tackling Jim McNamara. He woke up the next day in his dorm room, had trouble reading ever since (which we know now for sure was a result). At age 70, he suffered a massive paralyzing stroke which may very well have been a result of umpteen concussions.
I played football in high school and was being recruited for college play but was unable to continue due to significant injuries to my knees and back, as well as a dislocated shoulder, broken ankle, and 7 bones in my hands on one instance.
My oldest son played football in high school and college, having an injury free career until 2 concussions left him with some memory issues.
My sister asked us all the other day at dinner if we would play again, knowing what we would have to suffer. My answer was easy, as my injuries have only left me now a little pain & slow to get up it 50. Even I was surprised when both my father and son absolutely, immediately, said yes as well.
So maybe you don't choose for us, and let people make their now better informed choices by themselves ?
This is a great advance, but if we're talking solely about light-occlusion detection techniques*, aren't these results preconstrained by simple geometry to an astonishingly low subset of potential stellar systems?
This requires:
- the stellar main body must be physically occluded by the planet's orbital path (0.01% of systems at best, unless a) there's some sort of 'general ecliptic' for our galaxy AND b) we happen to be right on it)?
*and*
- the planet must actually be in that place in it's orbit; considering that the first confirmed detection was only 25 years ago, and CONFIRMATION really takes 3 'hits', we wouldn't have yet detected any Jupiter-orbital body in a Sol-similar system (period 11+ years)
- that we haven't moved enough in the meanwhile gathering those 3 'hits' that we've lost the favorable geometry in the first place.
My point is that I haven't heard much discussion about these odds?
If the system is likely to only detect 0.01% of planets, and has already detected hundreds, it's a near-certainty that there are hundreds of thousands that we HAVEN'T detected, no?
*Yes, we also detect planets by stellar primary motion now, but it would seem that those detections are subject to a number of other possible explanations, and thus have larger error bars.
....I have zee SIGNED AUTHORIZATION for zis testing.
Vhat?
Sure - see? Signed in ink. Dated 5/13/44.
"... if you crave music, you can easily raid your parents or grandparents record collections...."
What?
Clearly, we missed something that needs to be immediately legislated away. OBVIOUSLY handling music to your children is EXPLOITING desperate musicians.
Thanks for the reminder.
- Your friends,
The RIAA
"The free will theorem of John H. Conway and Simon B. Kochen states that if we have a free will in the sense that our choices are not a function of the past, then, subject to certain assumptions, so must some elementary particles."
Begged question: nobody is equating consciousness with free will.
Personally, I believe that everything we do and everything that happens IS a direct result of the immediate previous moment at least down to the point of quantum uncertainty. If we had total knowledge of the position, spin, etc of every particle and charge in the universe, as well as a perfect understanding of how they interact, we could theoretically predict the future with near-perfect certainty. IMO all of history and the future are a giant billiard trick shot.
So no, I don't see any need to reconcile Conway's theorem, because I don't believe in free will.
Squeeze the guys playing by the rules harder, forcing them to push price hikes to their customers.
It's not like the guys who run Pandora are bajillionaires from it. Yet there seem to be lots and lots of millionaire musicians?
I'm sure this won't drive anyone to piracy at ALL.